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Medicine : an imperfect science

Title
Medicine : an imperfect science / edited by Nayasha McEnroe.
Publication
London : Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd., [2019]

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Additional Authors
  • McEnroe, Natasha
  • Science Museum (Great Britain), host institution.
Description
239 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 29 x 25 cm
Summary
In autumn 2019 a spectacular suite of new Medicine galleries is due to open at the Science Museum in London, representing the biggest and most ambitious project that the Museum has ever undertaken. This permanent exhibition will include the historic collection of Henry Wellcome, whose personal treasure trove has been on long-term loan to the Museum for over 40 years, as well as the Science Museum's own medical holdings. 'Medicine: An Imperfect Science' is formed of stand-alone but connected chapters, generously illustrated, within which a rich history of medicine collecting can be found.00New permanent exhibition: Science Museum, London, UK (opening 16.11.2019).
Uniform Title
Medicine (McEnore)
Subject
  • Science Museum (Great Britain) > Exhibitions
  • Science Museum (Great Britain)
  • Science Museum London
  • Medical instruments and apparatus > History > Catalogs
  • Medical instruments and apparatus > Exhibitions
  • Medical instruments and apparatus > Private collections > Exhibitions
  • Exhibitions
  • Equipment and Supplies
  • Exhibitions as Topic
  • exhibitions (events)
  • Medical instruments and apparatus
  • Medical instruments and apparatus > Private collections
  • Medizin
  • Medizinisches Instrument
Genre/Form
  • Catalog
  • Exhibition
  • catalogs (documents)
  • exhibition catalogs.
  • History
  • Catalogs
  • Exhibition catalogs
  • Catalogs.
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • Exhibition catalogues.
  • Catalogues.
  • Catalogues d'exposition.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Director's foreword / Ian Blatchford -- Funders' forewords / Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller, Peter Luff, Pauline Williams -- Preface / Natasha McEnroe -- 1. Collecting medicine: routes and roots of medicine at the Science Museum / Selina Hurley -- 2. Prostheses at the Science Museum: peg-legs, pylons and the pianist's arm / Stewart Emmens -- 3. The problematic body: dissection and the rise of the anatomy school / Anna Maerker -- 4. The child in the iron lung: polio, public health and protection / Natasha McEnroe -- 5. Created through conflict: the development of military medicine / jack Davies -- 6. Preventing cervical cancer: vaginas, vaccination and veneral disease / Emma Stirling-Middleton -- 7. Hearing distant voices: psychiatry, asylums and the limits of history / Oisín Wall -- 8. The pharmacy shop: 'a great rage for mahogany, varnish and expensive floor-cloth' / Briony Hudson -- 9. Modelling life: exploring the human body / Muriel Bailly -- 10. Emotional objects: faith and feeling in the medicine collection / Sarah Bond.
ISBN
  • 1785512102
  • 9781785512100
OCLC
  • on1097577179
  • 1097577179
  • SCSB-9686005
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library